Carpet-fastener.



Ptenfed Nov. 4, |902.

No. 7|2,569. n

A. H. MYERS.

CARPET FASTENEB.

(Application filed Mar. 25, 1902.)

(No Model.)

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ALFRED HERMAN MYERS, OE CONTINENTAL, OHIO.

CARPET-FASTEN ER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N o. 712,569, dated November `4:, 1902. Application led March 25, 1902. Serial No. 99,919. (No model.)

T0 tZZ whom, it imtg/ concern:

Be it known that LALFRED HERMAN MYERS, a citizen ofthe United States, residing at Continental, in the county of Putnam and State of Ohio, have invented anew and useful Oarpet-Fastener, of which the followingis a speciy iication.

This invention relates to carpet-fasteners.

The object of the invention is to provide a fastener of the class specified which shall be permanent in character-that is to say, when once driven into the floor does. not have to be removed to permit the carpet or matting to be taken 11p-and which in use shall be as thoroughly effective for holding a floor-cover-' be varied or changed as to shape, proportion,

and exact manner of assemblage witho'utdeparting from the spirit thereof, and in these drawings- Figure lis a view in sectional elevation exhibiting a portion of the flooring and mopboard of a room with a covering applied to the floor*in this instance a carpet-and showing the improved carpet-fastener in operative relation thereto. Fig. 2is a view in side elevation of the fastener detached. Fig. 3 is a View in plan viewed from the top of the fastener.

Referring to the drawings, ldesignates generally the fastener, comprisinga shank 2, constituting a driven member, abody 3, constituting a clamping member, and a point4, constitutingacarpet-engaging member. The fastener is by preference made of steel wire; but,`

if preferred, it may be made of sheet metal, and in either case will be struck up by suitable machinery not necessary to :illustrate herein. The shank 2 is straight, or approximately so, up to a point near Where-it merges into the body 3, whence it is bent slightly outward to throw the shank within the terminal of the body, and thus present a rigid nonyielding head 5 to be impacted bythe hammer, the sides of the head being preferably flattened, as at 5", to impart added rigidity to the head and also to present a better surface to be struck by the hammer. The body 3 is bent at an acute angle to the shank to the bend G, whence it-is bent upward at an ob'- tuse angle thereto to present the point 4. The terminals of the shank and point are pointed, as at 7 and 8, preferably by shearing the Wire at an angle to its length, thus to facilitate the seating of the s hank and the piercing of the carpet or matting; but these points may be of other configurations than that shown and still be within the scope of the invention.

In the employment of the fastener the shank is driven into the iiooring until the bend (i of the body contacts therewith, and a further blow from the hammer is given to sink the bend into the flooring, thus not only to hold the fastener rigidly against turning, but in a positive manner to prevent the covering from slipping in between the body and the floor. The covering is then tightly stretched in the usual manner and passed over the point and upon release will slip down and occupy the Vcrotch formed between the ioor and the under side of the point, and will thus be held rmly in place, the point in practice being of such length as not to project any distance above the upper surface of the covering,which g would be objectionable.

Where the fastener is used for securing a covering in doorways that are not provided with footboards, the point may be bent down into the covering; but this will not interfere with the detachment of the covering therefrom, as by the employment of a suitable implement the point may readily be raised, so that upon the carpet being again stretched toward the wall or footboard it may be readily slipped off of the point.

By the employment of this form of fastener the troublesome necessity of withdrawing tacks to free a floor-covering is positively 0bviated, thereby not onl5T saving in the labor incident to the procedure, but also preserving the carpet or matting, as it frequently IOO happens that ordinary tacks cannot be removed from the floor, owing to rust or on 'account of their having been driven too closely downward, under which conditions the covering has forcibly to be torn therefrom.

Another advantage of this form of fastener is that there will be absolutely no waste of material in its production, thereby reducing to a minimum the cost of its manufacture.

Amember disposed at an acute angle to the driven member and presenting in conjunction With the carpet-engaging member, a clamping element adapted to be sunk into the Hoor thus to hold the fastener against turning.

2. A carpet-fastener comprising a driven member having its upper portion deflected laterally beyond its length and transversely flattened, a clamping member disposed at an acute angle thereto, and a carpet-engaging member disposed at an obtuse angle to the driven member, the terminal of the driven member and of the carpet-engaging member being pointed.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in the presence of two Witnesses.

ALFRED HERMAN MYERS.

Witnesses:

ARTHUR GARRIsoN, CHAs. VERNER. 

